My Father in Law is Lu Bu

How many people do Lu Bu have? He have less than ten thousand! Can he only last for five days?!

As to the amount of Cao casualties, no one bothered to pay attention to it for there’s already more than three thousand corpses underneath the city walls.
But so what if they had more casualties? Cao Cao could afford to waste but Lu Bu cannot!

“Do you know of where Gongtai is?!” Lu Bu had never been like today, actively seeking out his advisor in hope of creating a strategy to cause Cao Cao’s army to retreat.

“Fengxian!” Chen Gong also had a bleak expression, they were all screwed over by Zang Ba.
Had Zang Ba not dismissed his troops, with the thirty thousand Mount Tai soldiers and the ten thousand Chen family soldiers, then Lu Bu would have forty thousand troops in hand.
With forty thousand troops, even Cao Cao would not dare to do anything rashly.
However the thirty thousand soldiers were gone and all that remains were some five thousand stones of provisions, a few hundred armor and less than a hundred war horses.

The current situation was even more severe than Xiapi.
There’s already no where outside of Xu Province that would have soldiers to reinforce them now!

“Sigh!” Lu Bu sighed.
He too knew that he was already at a dead end.
From the battle of Xiapi, he already knew that there is no such thing as an unbreakable city.

“If there’s really nothing we can do then Gongtai, breakthrough with my daughter, Liu Mang, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Zang Ba and them on the hundred war horses that’s in the city!” Lu Bu’s eyes shined.
“With I, Lu Bu, here, I will certainly be able to help you delay them for a day or two!”

“My lord! You absolutely cannot!” The Lu Bu army was called the Lu Bu army precisely because of Lu Bu.
If Lu Bu’s gone, then would they still be the Lu Bu army?!

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Liu Mang was standing on the side.
He did not speak but he was moved.
In such a critical moment, Lu Bu did not think of himself but instead thought of Liu Mang and his daughter.
Liu Mang, if one thinks of it, was but a worker working for Lu Bu.
However, the Boss was actually thinking of his worker! That kind of feeling was like, yep, it’s like the feeling of an elder had toward those who come after.

The transfer button Liu Mang had with him once again began to shine.
Liu Mang originally planned to leave but now…

“Give me money!” said Liu Mang calmly.

“Ah?!” Chen Gong frowned.
What kind of situation is it to think of money?!

“I said to give me money!” Liu Mang repeated.
Seeing the confused expression of Lu Bu and Chen Gong, Liu Mang explained.
“Three days, as long as you all can withstand three days, I will be able to come back! Didn’t general Zhang Liao said that as long as he have enough horses, his Bing Province Cavalry will be unstoppable?! I can bring you horses and armor but I need money, lots of money!”

“Is this true?!” Lu Bu’s eyes lit up.
Once his Bing Province Cavalry was to have horses, only then are they the real Bing Province Cavalry.
Ferocious Cavalry, Righteous White Cavalry and the Heavy Cavalry of Western Liang, none of them could even bother Lu Bu.

“When have I ever lied to you?!” Liu Mang gave a supercilious look.
“But I need a large amount of gold!”

“How much do you need?!” Chen Gong was still with a face full of distress.
Kaiyang does not have a lot of money left.
In the warring era horses became things of strategic importance and were all in the control of a few frontier warlords, people like Yuan Shao, Ma Teng, Han Sui and them.
None of them were willing to sell their horses.
Even if they were to sell them, it’ll be tens of gold per horse.
With this kind of pricing, how many could they possibly be able to purchase with the money left in Kaiyang?!

Liu Mang wasn ’t profound in the arts of purchasing horses.
But alas, he had a classmate whose family breeds horses.
Liu Mang learned from that classmate that an ordinary adult horse was only some ten thousand yuan and only race horses would cost several millions.
He also knew that there’s a huge horse farm in the city of Hongwei of Shandong Province.

Gold.
The market price of gold was three hundred yuan per gram before Liu Mang came here.
To purchase a horse, it’ll cost him thirty five grams of gold.
For one hundred horses, three thousand five hundred grams.

“How many horses do you need?!” Liu Mang asked instead.

“A thousand war horses?!” Chen Gong carefully said a number.

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“A thousand?” Liu Mang began calculating.
He figured that it’ll be thirty five thousand grams of gold.
That’s seventy pounds of gold and according to the gold weight of the Three Kingdoms period, it’ll be a thousand and a hundred twenty gold.

Liu Mang rounded off the number.
“A thousand two hundred gold!”

“What?!” Lu Bu was so shocked that he jumped.

“That’s impossible!” Chen Gong wasn’t calm either.
This pricing was too unrealistic.

“Too expensive?!” Liu Mang didn’t know of the pricing of horses in the Three Kingdoms period.
However, this was precisely the price of horses in modern times.
“If it’s too expensive, I can negotiate with the other side!” Buying a thousand horses was a transaction of more than ten million.
A transition this large will certainly be eligible for a discount!

“No! No!” Lu Bu and Chen Gong quickly shook their head.

“How much gold is left in the Kaiyang palace?!” Lu Bu fought back his happiness as he asked Chen Gong.

“There remains less than two thousand gold.
However, General Zang Ba should have a couple thousand gold!” Zang Ba was already planning to retire to the countryside.
Thus, he certainly would’ve taken a lot of Kaiyang’s assets.

“Good!” Lu Bu composed himself and said.
“Borrow five thousand gold from Zang Ba.
Tell him I will return him twice fold in the future! Then give all these seven thousand gold to Hanyang.
I want five thousand warhorses!” said Lu Bu as he held out five fingers.

“Five thousand?!” Liu Mang looked at Lu Bu with eyes shocked wide open.
“That’s seven thousand gold, even if I purchase five thousand horses, there’s still two thousand gold!” Was the rest of the gold to purchase armor?!

Boss Lu was prepared to go big.